High Desert High by Steven Schindler

Author:Steven Schindler [Schindler, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780966240849
Publisher: The Elevated Press
Published: 2017-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

The event ended early because the lady seriously injured her ankle, and they had to get her medical attention. Kate, Jasmine, and Paul walked with the crowd back to the Escape, guided by the many flashlights now shining like so many beams of light cutting through the darkness.

“Tell Jasmine what you told me.”

Paul thought about keeping it to himself. He knew that people going through a lot of stress, or illness, or changes in life sometimes see things. Like his buddy Mickey used to say on long drives from the Hamptons or the Cape, It’s time to pull over when you start seeing the gorillas hanging from the trees. Because when you’re overtired, staring at the white lines in the road, trying desperately not to nod off, sometimes you see things: a desk in the road or a pterodactyl swooping down on the car, or a gorilla hanging off a tree by the side of the road. He knew he was in a heightened state of stress ever since those Ivy League protesters messed with his late-night breakfast, which set off a nuclear domino effect culminating in retirement and the death of his ex, all of which placed him at a UFO hunting expedition above the spot where Gram Parsons was set on fire so his ashes would be sent to heaven like so many Catholic school kids dropping their letters to Jesus into a fire during the Mary Queen of the May procession.

“Yeah, I think I saw something. But maybe not. I don’t know. I’m probably seeing things. I’ve been a little fakakta lately.”

Jasmine and Kate both stopped in their tracks. “Fakakta?”

“Yeah, fakakta. Crazy. Mixed up. It’s Yiddish. You never heard that?”

“Oh, I think it’s in a Woody Allen movie,” Kate said.

“Woody Allen’s picture is next to fakakta in the Yiddish dictionary!” Paul added.

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